I know it isn’t the Northern Star’s policy to publish responses to responses, but I have heard it one too many times: Someone says that a Christian picks and chooses what they want to believe from the Bible and wrongly cites scripture to make the argument. I’m just sick of people arguing from their own agendas.

This is in response to Jeremy Shipley’s Oct. 22 response to Nick Arhos’ column. Now, I didn’t read the column by Arhos, and I don’t really care about it anyway. You said you wanted to know what Arhos’ response to your statements is. Well, I can’t speak for him, but I can tell you what the Bible says, but I’m not going to. I can give you a complete in-depth biblically based rebuttal to Shipley’s response, but the paper is no place for theological arguments, not because it is inappropriate but because there is no room. There is just enough space for someone to select a passage to push or bash a point. Stop it, everyone.

Let’s just cut these scriptural arguments out of this once and for all. Most people don’t know the Bible one way or another. You can cite any passage you want to push any agenda, and people will take it at full weight. I could even make an argument that advocates the brutal murder of all infants in the nation now known as Iraq. Instead of trying to convince people in a few short sentences – that may or may not be correct – we should let them find out for themselves. I’m serious. If all a person gets of Christians is what is in the Star, then they don’t get a good view one way or another. I would encourage people to stop reading the paper to get views on people and actually start discussing with them (this goes for all groups). Find out why people believe what they believe. Don’t just make assumptions about it.

Andrew Crow

Senior, mechanical

engineering